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April 17,
1941
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. ROBERT A. LOVETT
(THROUGH: GENERAL BRETT)
SUBJECT: Mr. Burnelli vs. Central Aircraft
Corporation
- Every angle of the controversy between Mr.
Burnelli and the Central Aircraft Corporation over the rights to
the design of an attack bomber have been considered by our
technical and legal staff during the past year.
- From a legal point of view, it is possible
that the Central Aircraft Corporation could utilize the Burnelli
principle. However, the attack bomber which it is now
propose to place in production is obsolete due to changes in this
type of airplane made necessary as a result of combat
experience. If a new design,
embodying the Burnelli principle, is to be laid down, it is
believe that, regardless of legal controversies, Burnelli should
be identified with the project, since he is the originator of the
idea
. Accordingly, he was furnished the new military
requirements for an accompanying fighter. This is not a
production, but purely an experimental proposition.
- In the attached draft of a letter to Mr. Peto, for your
signature, these points have been brought out. In addition,
reference is made to the stripping of the Keyport plant of its
machine tools in order to, as we understand it, provide production
facilities in Canada for the Hurricanes. If this production
is to be stopped, tools should be brought back to the United
States if they are usable.
O.F. Echols,
Brig. General, U.S.A.
Chief, Materiel Division
Incls.
1. Letter to Mr. Peto
2. Ltr fr Mr. Peto, 3/31/41
3. Ltr fr Mr. Peto, 4/8/41, w/report
4. Memo fr Gen. Echols to Mr. Lovett, 3/14/41
5. cc memo to Gen. Echols 3/25/41 fr. Mr.
Lovett
w/cc ltr to Mr. Peto, 3/25/41
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